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Intel has blamed its ill-fated partnership with Nokia as the reason for delays in bringing its long-promised processors for smartphones.
CEO Paul Otellini called the MeeGo tie-in a mistake, and that the company would have been better-off choosing a different partner.
"In hindsight, Nokia was the wrong partner to have picked," said the Intel boss.
Medfield chips
The CEO's comments came as he promised investors that smartphones bearing the new Medfield chips will be available early next year.
"You'll see the first Intel-based phones in the first part of next year," Otellini added, before going onto say that "phones shipping in the market from major players" from the get-go.
Intel had first told the world that handsets would offer the 32nm, smaller, more powerful and more efficient chips by 2011 but the MeeGo melee has delayed things somewhat.
With the dual-core revolution now taking hold, Intel will have plenty of competition when the handsets finally come to market in 2012.


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Moritzburg Palace is one of the most impressive baroque palaces in central Europe. Reached via a tree-lined avenue, it is situated on an island in the middle of a lake. After visiting the palace, you can enjoy a romantic stroll to the enchanting Fasanenschlösschen (little pheasant castle) built in the rococo style.
Even the walk up to the castle is breathtaking. You approach the little lake where the castle rises on top of an island along an avenue through the vast romantic park grounds. With its four massive round towers surrounded by eight sentry boxes, it was a real dream come true for Augustus the Strong, who created a summer retreat here outside his electoral residency Dresden.
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Originally a hunting lodge in Renaissance style, Augustus the Strong began converting Moritzburg Castle into a Baroque hunting and summer residence from 1723. One of his descendants finished the elaborate work. Leather wallpaper and the worldwide unique feather room with wall hangings made from natural and artificial feathers are testament to the extravagant taste of that era. The Little Pheasant Castle in the park and monumental Venus fountain were built at that time and are both visually connected to Moritzburg Castle by a 2.5-kilometre long avenue.
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Its own harbour with jetty and Saxony's only lighthouse formed the backdrop for naval battle re-enactments – a truly decadent pleasure in the age of absolutism. The rulers probably relaxed in the French-style castle garden created on the edge of the castle pond afterwards. It is currently being carefully reconstructed based on original drawings from 1740 and will therefore complete the work of art more perfectly that you could ever imagine.
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Pto var
Pto_var can manipulate image variables in Hugin .pto project files. The intended use of Pto_var is in Scripting. Pto_var can set image variables to a given value, it can change the link status and it can mark variables for optimisation.
The general use is:
pto_var [switches] --output=output.pto --opt|--link|--unlink|--set|--set-from-file images input.pto
Optimisation variables
Pto_var can mark image variables for optimisation. (This information is stored in the v lines in the pto file.) This information is used by autooptimiser and vig_optimize to do the actual optimisation.
Running without other switches will only mark the variables given on the command line for optimisation. If you want to modify the marked variables add --modify-opt to the command line.
The usage is:
pto_var --opt="image variables list" input.pto
The image variable list consist of a comma separated list of image variables:
[!]name[image number]
The following image variables are allowed:
- position: y, p, r, TrX, TrY, TrZ, Tpy, Tpp
- lens parameters: v, a, b, c, d, e, g, t
- photometric parameters: Eev, Er, Eb, Vb, Vc, Vd, Vx, Vy, Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, Re (Vignetting and response parameter will treated as group.)
The image numbers start with zero. If no number is given, the variables will be applied to all images. (In this case a special treatment applies to the position of the anchor image.)
An exclamation mark before the variable will remove the variable from the list of variables to optimised.
- --opt=y,p,r will optimize position for all images.
- --opt=v,!v0 will optimize field of view for all images except the first.
- --opt=Vb1,Ra1 will optimize vignetting and response curve for the second image.
- --modify-opt --opt=!v will not optimize field of view.
Link or unlink image variables
To modify the link status of an image variable use --link or -unlink. Supply a list of comma separated image variables with corresponding image number.
- --link=v3 will link field of view of image 3.
- --link=a1,b1,c1 will link lens distortion for second image.
- --unlink=v0 will unlink field of view for the first image.
- --unlink=Vb3,Ra3 will unlink vignetting and response curve for image 3.
Set image variables
With this switch you can set the image variable to the given value. This applies to all the image variables of that sort or only to a single image, when the image number is given.
- --set=y=0,p=0,r=0 will reset all image positions.
- --set=a1=0,b1=-0.05,c1=0 will set the lens distortion parameters for the second image.
You can also give a mathematical expression. Supported are:
- the operators +-*/% and ^ (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, modulo and exponentiation),
- parentheses,
- the functions abs, sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, exp, ceil, floor and sqrt (trigonometric functions use the angle in radians),
- the constant pi and the functions deg and rad to convert to degrees or radians,
- the constant i holds the image number,
- the constant val contains the old value,
- a if statement: x?y:z. For the comparison statement you can use <, >, <=, >=, == (equal) and != (not equal)
- access to all image variables with the panotools syntax: e.g. y1 is the yaw value of the second image (These constants contains the values of the panorama when the parser is started. They don't change when you modify them in between.)
The expression should return exactly one value. It may be necessary to quote the string to correctly get the special characters read.
See some examples:
- --set=y1=val+10 will increase yaw of the second image by 10 degrees.
- --set=r2=val-90 will decrease the roll angle of third image by 90 degrees.
- --set=v=1.1*val will increase field of view for all images by 10 %.
- --set=Er=val/1.1,Eb=val/1.2 will divide the red multiplier by 1.1, and the blue multiplier by 1.2 respective for all images.
- --set=y=i*90,p=-1^i*20,r=0 a more complicated example for a fisheye panorama, sets yaw, pitch and roll
- --set="r=i<4?val+45:val" rotate the first 3 images by 45 degree individual (note: quoting for Windows)
You can also read the string from a text file. Use
pto_var --set-from-file filename --output=output.pto project.pto
In the text file the individual variables can be separated by comma or a line break.
General options
- -o|--output output.pto Output a pto file with the given filename. If not given it will append "_var" to the input filename.
- -h | --help Display help.


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Good news from Steve Morse! He has set up a One Step Search Tool for the new castlegarden.org website
It's in the Castle Garden section of his website under the link "Castle Garden Passengers". There are two tools with that heading -- one that goes to the paid site ancestry.com and the other that goes to this new castlegarden.org site which is free.
Some of things you can do from the one-step site that you can't do from castlegarden.org directly are:
- You can specify all your parameters at one time.
- You can search on year of birth.
- You can search on the passengers age.
- You can specify how you want your results sorted.
- You can display more than 10 hits per page.
Steve also tells me that the castlegarden.org site lacks the ability to do either a starts-with search or a sounds-like search. So there is no way you can search for all the variants of your family name. But they have assigned PIDs (passenger IDs) to all of the records in alphabetical order. So Steve wrote another utility (a Castle Garden Browser) that lets you scroll through the records sequentially to see if names adjacent to the one you found matches your family. That browser is in the Castle Garden section of Steve Morse Website.


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DJ Phillips takes a lick based look at the sound and stylistic approach of Keith Urban.
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John Waters is a member of the international jury for this year's Venice Biennale. Selected by Biennale Director Bice Curige, Waters and fellow jurors are responsible for awarding this year's Golden Lion, along with other prizes associated with the event. When he's not making trashy films, collecting art, or performing stand-up, Waters teaches 'Film and subculture' at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
(Above: an excerpt from Female Trouble, 1973, directed by John Waters)


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The sound of rushing water greeted us Friday evening as a friend and I launched our canoe on a small Wisconsin river which shortly downstream spilled into the St. Croix. We had fly rods and dreams of bass and muskies, and also my camera and thoughts of a summer sunset.
The birds sang their twilight songs and we paddled and waded, casting colorful streamers and poppers into fast water. When we reached the big river, it was in a place where the valley is a good mile wide, a multitude of channels weaving between islands.
The sun was not far above the Minnesota bluffs and the water was glassy. Although I've experienced such beauty and solitude on the St. Croix many times, it never ceases to amaze me when I can get to such a place an hour after leaving home.
We weren't the only ones enjoying the beautiful summer night. From the Minnesota side, we could hear the roar of motorcycles on Highway 95, at least a mile away. They of course had no way of knowing that two men were paddling quietly through the backwaters below, though I suppose they could have guessed. There was no doubt in our minds that they were on the highway.
The intrusion of motorcycles is nothing new in my many trips on the river. The river is not wide enough to escape their sound and it is frequently the only impact from the outside world on otherwise quiet and solitary fishing trips.
When I tweeted out some thoughts about this issue over the weekend, another individual reported on his family's trip to a popular state park:
@gregseitz Hear, hear. Bikes on the Wisconsin side really reduced our enjoyment of Wild River State Park a few weeks ago.
— § (@lawremipsum) June 30, 2012
It's certainly not just canoeists on the river who are affected. As I drive around the St. Croix valley, I love looking at the real estate. There are many roads featuring many great houses — secluded amongst woods and hills and running water. I like to think about living in such a place someday.
But if the road is scenic and especially if a house is anywhere near a hill, I know I would never live there, putting up with the bikes gunning it up the hill everyday. Like homes near the airport, it must be aggravating to sit on your own patio and have to stop conversation every time an engine drowns you out.
The river was flooded when we were paddling around Friday night. We cruised right over what were normally high banks, wove between trees on sunken points and islands. The fish were a little hard to find, but the consolation was the incredible colors in the sky, reflected on the perfectly still waters, and the feeling of being far from the modern world.
These days near the summer solstice are made for evening paddles as the light lingers in the sky until 10 p.m. Almost as stunning as the sunset was the warm light it cast on the Wisconsin shore.
The St. Croix River is not just another pretty lake. It was one of the eight rivers included in the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. Anybody who has canoed, kayaked, boated, fished, or swam the river knows it's special. The Wild & Scenic Rivers Act included this defintion:
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The legislation protected rivers from new dams, and also from most development on their banks. It essentially tried to keep them the way they are — to the extent that is ever possible with a river.
Enormous effort is put into keeping the St. Croix wild and scenic. Its stewards work to control invasive species like zebra mussels, asian carp, and buckthorn, invest in water treatment and agriculture practices that promote clean water, and argue for decades about building a new bridge. When passing the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, Congress probably did not consider motorcycles, and how they could degrade a river.
Loud motorcycles simply were not a big problem when the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was passed. The organization Noise Off says 45 percent of motorcycles today use aftermarket exhaust systems, specially designed to make them extremely loud. In the 1970s, just 12 percent of bikes had the noisy exhaust systems — this is not some long tradition that we ought to honor, but rather a growing trend that needs our attention.
Federal law prohibits vehicle exhaust from exceeding 80 decibels, but most after-market systems hit 100 decibels. The problem is that in order to bust violators, police would have to have the time and special equipment to measure noise levels. Which they don't, unless the public demands it.
The question is, don't motorcyclists have a right to their noise? This is America, after all. But as is so often the case in our nation, one person's freedom conflicts with another person's rights. The history of America is filled with debating how to balance those conflicts. It's a question with difficult answers, but America's favorite neighbor had a simple one.
There is a 2001 episode of the radio show "This American Life" in which the great Mr. Rogers helped solve problems in the reporter's neighborhood. The first issue he addressed was between a woman and her loud downstairs neighbor (who happened to be the reporter). The young man wanted to listen to his music loud, late into the night. His upstairs neighbor banged on her floor with a broom when she can't sleep.
Mr. Rogers sided with the woman. He says the reporter should keep his music down. The reporter says his apartment is his space, and why shouldn't he get to listen to whatever music he wants in his space. Mr. Rogers simply says, "We started with silence and I will always uphold a person's right to silence."
I like silence a lot, although it's really more a matter of the "original state" as Mr. Rogers might say. As we made our way back to the car Friday night, it was anything but quiet. We had to pull the canoe up the last 100 yards because the water was too shallow.
As we waded upstream, the river pushing against as, all I could hear was the sound of the fast-moving water on the rocks, my legs and the canoe. Fireflies blinked on the banks, and great blue herons and bald eagles flew overhead, headed to their nests for the night.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
This passage comes from a chapter entitled "Of the Origin of Ambition and of the Distinction of Ranks" in Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759):
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? (Then…) (n)ever enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
About this Quotation:
2009 is the 250th anniversary of the publication of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. It is a landmark work for several reasons. Firstly, it reveals that Smith was not just one of the founding fathers of modern political economy but a moral philosopher of the first order. One of his strengths is that he melds the two disciplines into a coherent theory of human interaction. Another fact to note is that this volume is the best seller among all the books published by Liberty Fund.


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Hi, Dimitri here. Now that the new Adobe Reader X sandbox has shipped, we are often asked about Adobe Reader for Android. Protecting our phones is increasingly important as more users are relying on them to access sensitive information, such as financial data, location tracking and email. Our use of mobile phones is different from our use of laptops, and there are more security threats to consider with these devices.
The Android Security Model
From a security point of view, the Android operating system is a multi-user Linux system where each application is a different user. This implies that any Linux 2.6 kernel bug that allows a local attacker to gain root privileges is also a potential Android vulnerability. While Android relies on Linux kernel security to achieve isolation between applications, it also provides some extra communication mechanisms of its own that allow different applications to talk to each other. These mechanisms give the operating system and each application fine-grained control over how they can interact.
There are many advantages to isolating different applications. One important benefit is that different applications cannot interfere with each other, unless the communication is mutually consensual. It also means that the principle of least privilege is applied by default, which makes the system more secure.
An Android application needs to be granted permission to access the user's contact list, to read GPS location data, to access the network, and to do many other things. By default, it does not have permission to do any of this. If an application needs permissions to work, it must ask for those permissions at install time by listing them in its AndroidManifest.xml file. Also at installation time, the Android system will ask the user whether the application should be given the requested permissions. If permissions are granted, Android enforces compliance from then on.
Adobe Reader for Android
I hope you read the previous blog posts about the excellent work the Adobe Reader team has done to implement a sandbox in Adobe Reader X on Windows. With sandboxing, even if an attacker takes over an application's process, he cannot cause severe harm to the user unless he also manages to break out of the sandbox.
In a sense, Android has sandboxing built-in. Every application in the Android system can be automatically sandboxed. This is great for the system's security! Adobe has taken full advantage of this feature with Adobe Reader X. Here is the AndroidManifest.xml file for Adobe Reader:
<manifest versionCode="35282" versionName="10.0.0" installLocation="0" package="com.adobe.reader"> <application label="Adobe Reader" icon="res/drawable-hdpi/icon.png" debuggable="true"> <activity theme="@16973830" label="Adobe Reader" name=".AdobeReader" launchMode="2" screenOrientation="2" configChanges="0xa0"> <intent-filter> <action name="android.intent.action.MAIN"> </action> <category name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"> </category> </intent-filter> <intent-filter> <action name="android.intent.action.VIEW"> </action> <category name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"> </category> <data mimeType="application/pdf"> </data> </intent-filter> </activity> <activity theme="@2131034112" name=".ARAboutActivity"> </activity> <activity theme="@16973830" name=".ARFileOpen" configChanges="0xa0"> </activity> <activity theme="@16973830" name=".ARPortfolioUI"> </activity> </application> <uses-sdk minSdkVersion="7"> </uses-sdk> </manifest>
The most important thing to notice is what is missing from this file. Adobe Reader does not ask for any permissions. As it turns out, we currently do not need to ask for any extra permissions to render documents. This means that Adobe Reader on Android already comes in a nice and strict sandbox.
If an attacker creates a malicious PDF file and is able to take over the Adobe Reader application running on your phone, he can run down your battery. He may also be able to use up all system resources or to brick your phone by sending multiple messages to the screen. He cannot, however, read your contact list, obtain your GPS location data, turn your camera on or even access the network! Unless there is a security bug in Android, all the attacker can do is perform a Denial-of-Service attack on your phone, which is undoubtedly extremely inconvenient, but not as costly as losing control of your personal information.
This fine-grained permissions-based sandbox-ready security model is currently only available on Android. Reader mobile users that have an Android phone should know that, even though this is not our first line of defense, Adobe Reader makes full use of Android's application sandbox.


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We knew it was coming, and here it is: Russell and Taylor Armstrong's marriage counseling sessions, now served up for your macabre pleasure. It's pretty much what you would expect, and by that I mean it's incredibly depressing and it will make you feel like a gross peeping tom staring at a trainwreck.
Meanwhile, over at the Vanderpump estate, Lisa, Kevin Lee, and company continue to plan Pandora's wedding. This time, it's Pandora who acts as the voice of reason who tells her mother that she's weary of the rest of the Housewives cast attending the wedding because of the drama, fighting, and cameras that come along with the territory. But then the entire table begins to make fun of the way Taylor eats cotton candy and everything is back to normal in Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210 reality land — and by that, I mean terrible again.


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What is the number one photo sharing website?
That should be enough to drive home the point that a (your) Facebook presence is important.
This leaves you with two options, getting on Facebook and fumbling around, hoping you get it right, or letting someone guide you step by step though the important features making sure you nail it from the very beginning.
I went for the step by step guided tour with Rod Evans "Facebook Marketing Tutorial".
Rod shows you how he uses Facebook to book senior sessions for around one dollar each in advertising cost.
He not only explains the three areas of Facebook that we need to concentrate on (our personal profiles, photo pages, and advertising), he walks you through each settings page, explaining what settings are important and which ones are not.
The Facebook Marketing Tutorial is a series of three videos (about 70 minutes total) and one of the things I really liked about them is when Rod was discussing page settings you saw the actual page (and settings) he was working on, so it could not have been easier to follow (and understand). And he didn't just share "this is what the setting should be", Rod also explains clearly why it should be what it is.
Another extremely important piece of information that is discussed is Facebook etiquette, without knowing it is extremely easy to find yourself outside the acceptable "rules of engagement" which will get you more than a slap on the wrist, it could end up getting you booted!
I think the coolest thing I learned from this DVD is what I need to do to an image before giving it to a client for their Facebook page that will drive potential clients my way (you'll have to watch the video for the details).
It's likely that you could learn everything that is taught on this DVD on your own, but how long would it take, how many mistakes would you make, and how much business would you miss out on before finally getting it right?
You could walk for free and would eventually get to Washington DC, or your can spend the money on a plane ticket and get there MUCH quicker.
Choice is yours, but I picked the plane ticket and could not be happier that I did.
The good folks at Evans Creative Training are making it easier for you to get there faster too by offering $30 off Facebook Marketing Tutorial, simply enter the coupon code "weekly" when ordering to receive your $30 discount.
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Thank you for finding this!
- September 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Hi Scott,
I am very interested in this material. However when I tried using your code, it said that "weekly is not a valid code. Do you have another code or know what the problem is?
- September 21, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Scott said...
I just checked with the good folks from Evans Creative Training and this was their response:
Hi Scott,
I just double checked and "weekly" is still an active code. It has been used a few times successfully including once just an hour ago so I know it works. Perhaps using a different web browser could solve the issue.
Eric Lundgren
- September 21, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Hi Scott,
Thank you for your reply. I tried in expolere and firefox and both keep telling me:
"weekly" is not a valid coupon.
We have estimated your order total as USD99.00 based on recent exchange rates. Your actual payment will be submitted as USD99.00
I will try and contact them directly.
I appreciate your blog very much!
Regards from Aruba,
- September 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- Miguel Palaviccini said...
Thanks for sharing this. Again, it's one of those products I wouldn't have found otherwise.
- December 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- Miguel Palaviccini said...
"You could walk for free and would eventually get to Washington DC, or your can spend the money on a plane ticket and get there MUCH quicker." Agreed!
If you want to be better at something, find someone (a role model) to model your behavior after. This seems like the ticket for photographers on facebook!
- June 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM


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Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, said Friday that his division had launched an "IM Moving Ahead" initiative to assess where the division had "gaps" and to help the division identify its policy priorities.
Speaking at the SEC Speaks conference in Washington, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, Champ said teams were created to help the division's "Moving Ahead" initiative pinpoint "common themes" and to then put together an "action plan."
Having identified its priorities, Champ said his division's "immediate" agenda will focus on three areas: money market fund reform as informed by the recent study performed by the SEC's Division of Risk Strategy and Financial Innovation (RiskFin); following up on a February 2012 proposal regarding identify theft "red flags" by proposing a rule this year; and to "continue to work with the industry" on a valuation proposal for mutual funds.
SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher said during his remarks at the event that after being provided with RiskFin's "rigorous study and economic analysis on money market funds that a bipartisan majority of the Commission asked for," the SEC will "move forward shortly" with a rule proposal on further reforms to money market funds.
While not providing a timeline, Champ said other areas of focus for the division include drafting a rulemaking on a variable annuity summary prospectus and "working on" a rule to "codify some of the exemptive relief that's out there" regarding exchange-traded funds.
Proposed amendments to rules under the Investment Advisers Act are also being mulled as since Dodd-Frank, the number of advisors to private funds that have registered with the agency have increased substantially. "Almost 40% of our advisors are advisors to private funds," he said.
The division also continues to help the agency on its rule to put brokers under a fiduciary mandate, with the next step being a further request for public comment to be released soon regarding the cost/benefits of a such a rule.
Current SEC Chairwoman Elisse Walter told reporters after her speech at the event that the fiduciary issue "is very important" to her, but declined to say whether a rule proposal would be issued this year.
ETF and Fund Trends
As to ETFs, Barry Miller, an associate director in the investment management division, who spoke on the same panel as Champ, said that the agency continues to see both managed funds and index funds, but is seeing "more specialized, or customized indices" these days. Overall, he said, the division is "seeing ETFs offering the same [investments] as mutual funds," but most of the funds are making "substantial investments in derivatives," with "boilerplate disclosures." This has prompted the division to ask the funds to provide more specifics about those investments.
As to trends the agency is seeing in mutual funds, Miller said "the smaller category of funds is the fastest growing," which includes those funds that are using hedge fund techniques to reach their investment objective, like long/short funds.
More traditional hedge fund managers are "getting into the registered field," he continued, and funds are also "paying more attention" to volatility. Funds are "purchasing lower volatility stocks and have volatility in their name."
See also:
Fiduciary rulemaking under 'serious consideration'


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This is a Lululemon purple and black Charming Twist headband.
Here is a view of the front of the headband.
This is a side view of the headband. It has purple and black strands braided.
Here is the back of the headband. You can see a silver lululemon omega symbol metal piece.
Here is the description.
I love this headband's color. It was $12. Sometimes I like a thinner headband like this. I also bought it in black.


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BAFTA Los Angeles is pleased to announce that we will honor Academy Award® winning writer/director John Lasseter and BAFTA winning director David Yates at the 2011 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards.
The Britannia Award is BAFTA Los Angeles' highest accolade, a celebration of achievements honoring individuals and companies that have dedicated their careers or corporate missions to advancing the entertainment arts. This year, the gala event will be hold on Wednesday, November 30 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Their high standard of art, perception and pure entertainment is unparalleled....
John Lasseter will receive the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment, and David Yates will receive with the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing.
"John Lasseter and David Yates are master creators of joy and imagination," says Nigel Lythgoe, Chairman of BAFTA Los Angeles. "Their high standard of art, perception and pure entertainment is unparalleled. The worldwide success of Mr. Lasseter for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and Mr. Yates' contribution to the final four parts of the 'Harry Potter' franchise makes them global wizards in their own right, and are delighted to honor these remarkable filmmakers with this year's Britannia Award."
The Britannia Awards are presented annually at a gala dinner, where peers and colleagues celebrate the work and accomplishments of the distinguished honorees. Proceeds from the gala ceremony support BAFTA Los Angeles' ongoing education, scholarship, community outreach and archival projects.
Meet our Honorees:
Britannia Award for Worlwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment
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John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing
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Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year
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Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy
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Double Bullet on Wheels (Jan, 1952)
Double Bullet on Wheels
By Michael Stern
Mi's European Correspondent
AN amazing contraption, I thought, as the odd-looking car was unloaded from a truck onto the Appian Way, just south of Rome. The kind of vehicle that springs full-grown out of fantastic comic books. But, it was an automobile, all right—a pair of sleek silver-and-blue torpedoes, shaped very much like the deadly fish launched by submarines, connected by two thin strips of beveled aluminum.
I was one of the handful of racing enthusiasts and official timers who had traveled to this dangerous stretch of two-lane macadam road flanked by deep ditches out of which grew huge trees. Most of us had faith in the radical machine because it had been built—and was being driven—by Piero Taruffi, a brilliant automotive engineer and one of the world's best racers.
The wheels were separately suspended and absolutely independent. This suspension, instead of being parallelogramed side-wise, as is the case with American cars, functioned from front to back. The motor was a standard Maserati four cylinder, 1720 cc with four forward speeds. Power from this motor was transmitted to the rear wheels by a chain drive, as in a motorcycle. The tail fins sticking up from the torpedoes were adjustable to take advantage of prevailing wind conditions.
There had been almost insuperable engineering and financial handicaps to overcome before the vehicle was ready for its trial. And now, on this ancient Roman roadway stretching like a narrow ribbon through the Pontine Marshes, Taruffi was going to try to better the world's record for sports cars in the two-litres class. The record was held by Britain's Goldie Gardner who, the year before, had rolled up the incredible speed of 284.470 kilometers per hour in an MG.
Mechanics poured preheated oil into the Maserati motor, Taruffi donned his white helmet and climbed into the cockpit. He grasped the rudders that took the place of the steering wheel and drove to the starting line. The first two laps were warmups. On the third, coming downwind, he zoomed like a silver streak past us. The timer announced that he had done a breathtaking 313.588 kilometers per hour.
The upwind leg was slower. But the average, necessary in fixing the official time, was 298.507 kilometers per hour, or approximately 185 mph. Taruffi's double torpedo had broken Gardner's mark by better than 14 kilometers!
"The importance of my car," Taruffi told me after the race, "is that it embodies many new principles that will become standard in automobiles ten years from now. It was important, also, for me to prove in a controlled test that my design is feasible because I wish to get financial support to build another, larger double-torpedo—one powered by a four-and-a-half litre Ferrari motors—for entry in your Indianapolis classic."


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I don't speak a word of German, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate watching Toyota try to explain the Auris hybrid to the people from the land of the Teutonic Knights. Apparently, it involves little people in Toyota's hybrid drive system who hold hands with each other. Because that makes sense.
Anyone want to translate this for us? (Hat tip to RentalCarGuy!)


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Your feedback and bug reports will help us release FastTrack 1.0 as soon as possible so the user community can enjoy all the new features- thanks in advance for your support!
FastTrack 0.9.5 has the following new features (new since v. 0.9.0):
- Subversive 1.0.2 client for Subversion included
- Working well with Eclipse 3.2.
- Query Builder to produce Work Item queries in a structured query builder dialog.
- Manage Work Items table columns (defined in a shortcut, or just for open table)
- Basic Project management: you can open the new Project editor (Open > Polarion Project Editor in Tracker Navigator's context menu in a tracker project). There you can:
- Manage Categories and Time Points
- Defined basic project properties
- Manage Categories and Time Points
- Improved Work Item editor
- Work Item Priority can be edited via a drop down list, same as in the Polarion web UI.
- Enhanced fields for editing Time Spent and Remaining Estimate fields, as in the Polarion web UI.
- Improved interaction for linking Work Items, revisions, and hyperlinks
- New button in the Editor to synchronize the current Work Item
- New History Tab
- Autoassignment feature as in the Polarion web UI
- Work Item Priority can be edited via a drop down list, same as in the Polarion web UI.
- Improved Commit Dialog
- Create new Work Items directly from the Commit Office dialog's Linked Work Items tab
- Open the Work Item editor via the Open action above a Work Item in the linked Work Items tab
- Create new Work Items directly from the Commit Office dialog's Linked Work Items tab
- Many other improvements and bug fixes
To update from FastTrack 0.9.0 to 0.9.5, please be sure to do the following:
- Close all perspectives (Window | Close all perspectives)
- Call Help | Software Updates > Search for updates
- VERY IMPORTANT: When prompted restart Eclipse, please DON'T. Instead, close the Eclipse workbench and start Eclipse again with the –clean option
Please note that the restart can take a long time when you have thousands of Work Items in your tracker. (Can be 1 hour)
Best regards,
Jiri Walek
Polarion Software


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January 13, 2013
Members of the Briton stock seat team returned early from their winter break to compete at the final show of the season before Regionals. The double header, hosted by Michigan State University, was held at the MSU Pavilion on January 13. While the team came away with a third and fourth place, there were quite a few Albion riders that returned with Champion and Reserve individual ribbons.
Senior Katie Petchell (Pinckney/Pinckney Community) was especially happy to wrap up the season by securing her spot at Regionals in both the Open riding and reining. Her second place in Open and first place in reining made Petchell the Reserve Grand Champion rider for the whole show. Teammate Lindsey Memering (White Lake/Milford) also won her Intermediate II class which confirmed her points to qualify for Regionals as well.
The Advanced division was dominated by Albion riders as well. Sophomores Morgan Carey (Hemlock/Saint Charles Community) and Megan McNeil (Onondaga/Jackson Christian) both placed first in their Advanced divisions, as did first-year student Jennifer Fifield (Oxford/Oxford).
There was some excitement in the air when senior Chelsea Utt (Harbor Springs/Petoskey) won first place in Open reining and then fourth place in Open riding, which Memqualified her for a three-way ride-off. Utt came away with the Reserve Grand Champion rider.
The IHSA Stock Seat Regional Championships will take place on February 10 at the Michigan State University Pavilion. Ten Albion College stock seat riders will contend at Regionals to vie for coveted spots at the Semi-Finals from there.


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In less than a week, two more disturbed young men with guns have wreaked havoc at two more very public locations.
On Friday, a lone gunman seeking to "instill fear" in the "traitorous minds" of Transportation Security Administration officers shot and killed one of them at a Los Angeles International Airport checkpoint. The gunman wounded two other officers and a teacherbefore he was shot by airport police. It could have been a lot worse.
OPPOSING VIEW: Create a new class of armed officers
On Monday, a gunman in a black motorcycle helmet walked into the largest shopping mall in New Jersey and opened fire. Terrified shoppers scattered. The 20-year-old shooter didn't appear to be aiming at anyone, and no one was wounded. The shooter killed himself. That, too, could have been a lot worse.
Hard as it might be to acknowledge, there are no easy ways to end the carnage that the country has become all too used to witnessing. But it is easy to know what not to do: arm guards at every place mass shooters have struck. The list is impossibly long: Schools. Movie theaters. Sikh temples. Private offices. Hair salons. Political events and more. The cost would be prohibitive and the consequences unproductive at best.
Yet just as the National Rifle Association called for arming school guards and teachers after the Connecticut school tragedy in December, now the union representing TSA officers wants the government to train and deploy a cadre of armed TSA officers at airport checkpoints.
That's a natural reaction to the tragic death of the first TSA officer killed in the line of duty. But the uniqueness of the event — a single incident in 12 years despite the TSA's massive scale — argues for restraint.
The TSA was created to keep terrorists and their weapons off planes, and the agency is good at the job, despite the difficulty of coping with travelers who hurl insults and occasionally punches at its officers just for doing their jobs. They, like passengers, are protected by airport security officers and local police. If more protection is needed, that's where it should be applied. A lunatic or a terrorist could attack anywhere at the airport, not just at checkpoints.
But the security perimeter that really matters lies far beyond the airport. It is the sketchy line between disturbed young men and deadly weapons.
In 10 mass shootings since 2009, mental health concerns about the shooter were raised with doctors, school officials or legal authorities before the shooting. In others, family or friends were worried that something was wrong. But the shooters were able to get a hold of weapons anyway, either by buying them or taking them from relatives.
Finding legal ways to keep firearms out of the hands of disturbed people is difficult. But it is more sensible than putting more and more guns into the hands of more and more people.
Courtesy of USA Today


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What is the PRRS Virus?
What is the PRRS Virus?
Recently, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has re-classified the two genotypes as two different species: PRRSV1 and PRRSV2.
Both PRRSV1 and PRRSV2 belong to the genus Porarterivirus, one of the five genera established within the family Arteriviridae, placed with the families Mesoniviridae, Roniviridae and Coronaviridae in the order Nidovirales.
Species in the family Arteriviridae have a nucleotide identity of around 40-70%. Although arteriviruses share an evolutionary relationship with other members of the order, several of their characteristics are unique:
- Genomic organization and size (from 12.7 to 15.7 kb).
- High genetic variability.
- Morphology of the virion.
- Limited cellular specificity (all replicate in alveolar macrophages, apart from WPDV and some viruses that affect simians, for which the cell types are yet unknown).
- Capacity to cause persistent or, in some cases, asymptomatic infections.
Keep reading about this at prrscontrol.com
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thats the problem for living in a dorm
went to the bathroom and forgot to logoff from facebook so a couple of my friends took the oppurtunity to change my display picture to a picture of 2 black men who were fully nude
Same here 80's. I dont see what all the fuss is about really. But then again I didnt see what all the fuss about facebook was either till I got it.
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Well, its my second day of Twitter and its just as sh*t as yesterday. I've got a load of stuff about wine still, some comments about going shopping in Covent Garden by Stephen Fry, and I have been through the recommended threads and read some very badly spelled comments about their explicit sexual preferences by some American people. Plus there's all funny URLs and @_ kind of stuff everywhere what I don't understand, and I still cant find Boris Mellor despite having tried every conceivable spelling and spacing of his name.
I asked some people from work what I should do with it and they recommended I 'followed' Joe Lovejoy. Well thats the icing on the cake as far as I am concerned. I detest that man with a passion, the thought of his crass comments appearing on my mobile phone unrequested, makes my blood run cold.
Twitters got till the end of the week to get better or I'm coming off it.
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If it was about the film I got it ok, but there are lots of bugs. URLs dont seem to work
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Right I'm on twitter now.
I'm called @1burnm apparently.
Its a bit boring though. What happens next.
By the way I cant find BorisMellor, which is the main reason I signed up. I don't think your on there mate. My only twitter friend or whatever they are called, is a wine warehouse belonging to my mate, so all I have is a long list of things about wine.
Dont think much of it so far.
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Profile surprise: How I made CPD's hit list
After one encounter with the Charlottesville police, the last thing I expected was another visit over the same issue [Essay, August 23: "My crime: 'You fit the description'"]. Yet here it was all over again.
This afternoon, two Charlottesville police officers showed up at my door, waving a clipboard and a DNA swab kit.
"We don't know how it got there, or how it was submitted," one officer politely explained, but "your name is on our list."
Momentarily stunned, I pulled it together and almost smiled. This has to be a joke. I looked around for a hidden camera and a mischievous group of friends yelling, "Surprise!" But this joke is not funny anymore. There's a serial rapist on the loose out there, and no black man in town is above suspicion.
"Sir," one of the officers began earnestly, "the search for this man takes a lot of manpower, puts a huge strain on the department. One of the easiest ways to lighten that load is to eliminate people from the list, and we have a chance to do that here."
The officer went on to explain that the test takes only a moment, that I was welcome to claim the DNA and the kit after the results come in. The officers took turns explaining the positive benefits of taking the test. It was like watching a tag-team of good cop/really good cop.
Submitting to the DNA test would be great for me, one officer explained warmly, as it could mean no more contact with the police and getting my name off "the list."
The officer doing most of the talking was black, the other white. Perhaps the thinking was that brother to brother we could iron this thing out. Between the two of us, we could overlook an illegal search and seizure.
Well, maybe our ancestors came over in the same ship, brother, but we're in different boats now.
The first time I was asked to submit to a DNA test was last August, in the middle of a sweep of black males, a response to public and political pressure to solve a six-year old rape case. As a black male, I supposedly fit the description.
I was unhappy, but I tried to put the incident in perspective. It's the police department's job to examine everything. Now, I'm angry. This feels like harassment. Even as I write this, my hands are shaking because my name is on a list somewhere in the Charlottesville Police Department. I don't want to play good cop/good cop anymore. I don't want to engage in another Constitutional debate. I want my life to go back to how it used to be.
After the first time I was asked to submit to a DNA test, I wrote "...every time an officer pulls me over, I want him or her to run a check, hold my life up to the harsh glare of red and blue flashing lights. Maybe in some small way it will help them remember not everyone who "fits the description" is a potential perpetrator, but is instead a real person, with a real life, someone who has faith in God, country, our Constitution and yes, even our men and women in blue. "
I don't have that same faith in the Charlottesville police now, and that revolutionary fire has gone out of me.
Again I said, "No." And I said it emphatically and louder than the last time.
"I would just like to know why," one officer demanded. "Is it because it is your right to refuse and..."
"Yes," I cut him off, "because it is my right to refuse."
Last time around, the officers explained, almost 300 black men in Charlottesville had agreed to submit to the buccal. I can understand why they consented. Even if you've done nothing wrong, the urgency of the tag-team of officers pressing you can be overwhelming.
I have nothing but sadness and a sincere sense of grief for every woman who was assaulted by the Charlottesville rapist. I could not imagine what it felt like to be assaulted in your own home, to have the security and peace of the place in the world where you live violated and irreconcilably shattered. Until now.
Please don't misunderstand; I'm not attempting to equate my experience with a reprehensible, violent physical assault. I am trying to say that since the suspect is still at large, the Charlottesville Police Department has created a database of black men who have not submitted to the DNA test and has instituted the disturbing tactic of home visits to those men, enthusiastically articulating the "benefits" of submitting to the test, as if they were selling door-to-door house wares.
No thanks. I'm not buying.
According to its home page, "The Charlottesville Police Department pledges to continue our tradition of service and excellence to every citizen, student... only through teamwork, mutual respect, and cooperation can the community be best served... No challenge is too great for us to overcome... the community [we] serve determines the role of the police... and it is our passion, duty, and honor to serve you."
But twice now, the Charlottesville PD's passion for its work has taken the form of an impassioned argument for me to surrender fundamental civil rights.
"The community it serves determines the role of the police?" I'm a member of the community, and this kind of policy is not the role I would advocate for law enforcement. Is what is occurring here an instance of racial profiling? Or is it just an example of "good" police work?
There have been published reports that black men who do not match the suspect in facial features, complexion, height, weight, or age have been asked to provide a DNA sample. It is difficult not to conclude that race is the only objective factor. When I first moved here a year ago, I wasn't sure if Charlottesville was part of the Old South. I am now.
As of this writing, 500 local black men have agreed to submit to the buccal. I'm sure the Charlottesville police will continue to knock on doors, continue to wave their DNA kits, and that number will rise to 501, or well above. But not today. Not with me.
I guess some of that revolutionary fire is still burning somewhere after all, because the first thing I plan to do tomorrow morning is to consult an attorney.
You see, the Charlottesville Police Department is now on my list.
Steven Turner is a PhD student in UVA's Curry School of Education.


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Most Agree, Under Obama the Country is Headed in the Wrong Direction
While liberal pundits and media types this week had their hissy fit over Rand Paul's spot on comments about how a portion of the Civil rights Act of 1964 is unconstitutional and un-American, those of us that really care about the future of the United States took notice of how the current administration is destroying it.
Now, before you say this is just another rant by a fire breathing libertarian bent on desecrating the good name of the president, read on. In a recent Rasmussen poll, 67 percent of Americans agree with me that the nation is on the wrong track. Only 28 percent think things are honky dory. Of course, the president's approval rating continues to languish below fifty percent. Even with his success in passing nationalized health care, he just can't seem to enjoy the support of a majority of Americans.
So, what specifically is wrong with the direction of the country? For one thing, the government just reported that it passed the $13 trillion debt mark. Now, many will say, so what? "We have had higher debt to GDP ratios in our nation's history and our economy is big enough to weather the storm." That could be the feelings of the president as well since in just 16 months in office he is responsible for nearly $2.4 trillion of that total. And it is true that just after World War II our debt to GDP ratio was higher (120 percent) than it is now. But, honestly our national debt is much higher than $13 trillion that Uncle Scam reports. We have to take into account the future unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. When those future commitments are added in the current debt to GDP ratio is off the chart at 435 percent. Even if we only consider the bogus government debt number of $13 trillion, when Bernanke and his counterfeiters at the Fed eventually raise interest rates significantly to combat the hyper-inflation caused by their fraudulent acts the interest on the debt alone will bust the federal treasury. Foreign lenders will disappear and the French Revolution will look like a walk in the park compared to what will happen on American streets.
And after President Obama is done making most Americans dependent on Washington the austerity measures that will have to be enacted will cause serious civil unrest from coast to coast. It was reported by USA Today this week that pay from private business decreased to its smallest share of personal income in U.S. history in the first three months of this year (so much for economic recovery). Meanwhile, during the same time period government programs like Social Security, unemployment insurance, and food stamps rose to record highs. I understand that we have just experienced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and these numbers should not be unexpected, but according to the administration we have been in a recovery for some time now, thus I would think the number of folks on welfare should be lessening not still increasing.
The reason they are increasing is because the Obama Administration has a goal to build the welfare state like we have never seen it before. Remember when Bill Clinton proclaimed, "We've ended welfare as we know it"? That was a lie, but at least his reforms put time limits and other restrictions on receiving welfare. Since the legislation was passed in 1996 welfare caseloads have decreased by 70 percent, child-poverty rates have dropped, and teen pregnancies are down. Folks from across the political spectrum agree that Clinton's reforms have helped the poor get on their feet in a humane manner.
While the restrictions are still in place, starting with his so-called $862 billion stimulus package last year Obama has changed the way states receive welfare subsidies from Washington. The Feds now pay states 80 percent of the cost for each new family added to the welfare rolls. No longer do states have an incentive to drive welfare recipients into the job market. To prove further that Obama wants a permanent underclass in America his budget projections show that he intends to spend $10.3 trillion on welfare for the 10 year period FY 2009 to FY 2018. The question that has to be asked is: why is Obama so bent on destroying successful welfare reform and putting so many more folks on the public dole at a time when our treasury is so busted? Perhaps this question and why it is that he wants to grant citizenship to illegal aliens have the same answer – to make the Democratic party the dominant party in American politics for a long time to come. In any event, when the collapse comes all those on government benefits will have to find sustenance elsewhere. Recent events in Greece are a preview of what could be coming to America.
Gargantuan debt and an expanding welfare state are just two reasons a large majority of Americans believe the country under Obama is on the wrong track. Then, there are also the matters of illegal immigrants and expanded wars in the Middle East. If only the liberal pundits and media would focus on the events that are destroying America instead of a gotcha interview with a Republican nominee for the Senate. Then again, maybe that was the liberal establishment's ploy all along – to distract the rest of us from reality?
Article first published as Most Agree, Obama is Heading the Country the Wrong Direction on Blogcritics.
Kenn Jacobine teaches internationally and maintains a summer residence in North Carolina


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Corrections employees in several states face federal prosecutions
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Last year alone, federal courts meted out prison sentences to an Alabama bail bondsman, two former Alabama corrections employees, a Florida corrections officer and a Georgia man, who were convicted separately of stealing the identities of more than 1,200 prisoners and claiming more than $6.5 million in tax refunds under the inmates' names.
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Now I know that you are a major troll.
I think ABDC ranks that journal as A*. It would probably be seen as a JFQA equivalent if it gets cited in top finance journals over the next 4 years.
How many schools have called so far? How many more posting should we expect to come?
No idea. Between trolls and misinformation, the signal to noise ratio here is effectively zero.
If you tried to parse through the other threads, maybe 10-15 places have called, including some teaching schools.
I'm hoping this week is a big week for me.


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Trash talking: Ellis and Lange thump the dump
Don't be fooled. Peering through the large plate glass windows at The Bridge, you might make the mistake of thinking the space is in transition. Whatever was on show has come down, and all that's left is a stretch of rubbish and refuse along the back wall.
But that's the art. (Seriously.)
What at first appears to be a jumble of metal and plastic garbage cans, paint buckets, translucent trash bags stuffed with shredded paper, lumber scraps, and brown-paper bags filled with bottles and cardboard for recycling is, in fact, a carefully orchestrated–in every sense of the word–large-scale sculpture. Artist David Ellis has used the inner workings of a player piano to wire this collection of detritus to play a percussive score written by composer Roberto Carlos Lange. The result is "Bling."
In several respects, Ellis and Lange's piece recalls Invisible's "Rhythm 1001" installation at Second Street Gallery last May. Both reflect the current zeitgeist in the art world to salvage aesthetic worth from our throwaway culture, and both tap into the cutting-edge field of sound art. But whereas the members of Invisible actively played the junkyard instruments created by Mark Dixon, electrical cords and thumpers openly in view, "Bling" appears to play itself. Ellis has hidden the robotics to yield an unabashedly trashy animated dump that humorously suggests garbage lives on even after we're done with it.
The metal handles of white buckets thwack their sides, as a small black vinyl case's lid opens and closes. The shredded paper rustles in its bags, while lumber scraps knock into each other. Interestingly, the most unlikely items yield some of the most compelling sounds, such as the metallic rattle of an unlatched suitcase lock. Lange's 45-minute looped composition ensures viewers are unlikely to see or hear the same sequence of funky beats twice.
As the complex rhythms move back and forth across the length of the sculpture, the visual cleverness of Ellis's work becomes apparent. For instance, he's subtly positioned a garbage-filled paper bag to reveal a red print of WWI-era military men on its side. In another case, he's placed a pair of paint-spattered shoes on a turquoise three-ring binder atop an overturned plastic garbage can, wired so the shoes seem to dance on the binder when the drum within the can is triggered.
Ellis and Lange's "Bling" may have a heart of garbage, but it dazzles like a diamond.
David Ellis and Roberto Lange's installation, "Bling," is on view through September 26 at The Bridge. Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12-3pm. 209 Monticello Road. 984-5669.


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There will be a brand-new thrill ride at Walt Disney World beginning in mid-January, but it won't be what you'd expect.
The Richard Petty Driving Experience, which already offers stock car drives at the Disney World Speedway, will begin offering rides in exotic cars such as Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
The new option is coming, in part, because the stock car business, including NASCAR, has contracted in the tough economy, said Mike Bartelli, chief marketing officer of the Richard Petty Driving Experience.
"So we looked at extensions of what we do in the stock car arena to help build our business, and what we're good at is putting people in cars, safely,'' Bartelli said. "We've got the track, we're here year-round, and we know there are people who would love to drive these cars on a race track, given the opportunity."
The Exotic Driving Experience is expecting to start out with two Ferraris, two Lamborghinis, a Porsche 911 and an Audi R8. Other brands and models could be added in the future.
Prices will start with "Thrill Rides," with a Petty instructor driving, for $99. The actual driving experience will start at $199 for six laps, with an instructor in the passenger seat.
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The Experience expects to acquire the cars from Orlando-area dealers. Petty would like to offer the Exotic Driving Experience at Daytona International Speedway soon and likely Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The Petty Experience at Disney World has given stock car rides and drives to more than 250,000 customers, Bartelli said.
"And we think the Exotic Driving Experience has the potential to be every bit as successful as the stock cars," he said.